The company sold a total of 427,222 units in June compared to 348,874 units in June 2015.

Honda added 78,348 new units in June 2016 and contributed 65% of the total industry’s new volume addition in the month. Honda’s growth in June 2016 stood at 23%, which is nearly three times that of the 8% domestic tally said a company statement.

Riding on its incremental sales, Honda was also the two-wheeler industry’s No 1 market share gainer in June increasing its share of the pie to 26%, up 3.1% points.

A company statement said the gain in market share was also due to fresh capacity at the company’s recently inaugurated fourth plant in Gujarat.

In the domestic market alone, Honda grew nearly double the 12% domestic industry growth. Honda’s domestic sales grew 23% from 331,859 units to 407,979 units in June 2016. The company’s automatic scooter sales jumped 21% and stood at 265,361 units led by Activa which has now unseated Hero MotoCorp’s Splendor as India’s No 1 selling two-wheeler.

Honda’s motorcycle sales also grew 27% to 142,618 units.

HMSI inaugurated the second assembly line of its six lakh unit annual capacity scooter only plant in Gujarat last month. With this, the company’s fourth plant now has an annual production capacity of 1.2 million units.